Image: Sharon and Melanie at the EU Parliament to talk methane.   Photo credit:  © Eric De Mildt / Greenpeace

Howdy, y’all! Sharon was in Europe, Texas and Maryland in March. Charlie was in New Mexico and Oklahoma. Jack was in Texas doing emissions work and in Georgia talking methane at a conference. Justin was slacking and didn’t go anywhere.

Sharon goes to Brussels

Sharon traveled to Brussels where she had the opportunity to speak directly to politicians about the realities of methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas. She also attended a screening of Gaslit and spoke on a panel after the screening.

Image: Sharon talks on a panel at the Gaslit screening
Photo credit: © Eric De Mildt / Greenpeace

Media News

Sharon spoke to Inside Climate News about Senator Whitehouse’s efforts to investigate the Permian methane problem.

“Wilson challenged the notion of reducing emissions at little to no cost, noting that methane is considered a byproduct in the Permian Basin and that a significant buildout of additional infrastructure, along with increased equipment maintenance, would be needed.

Wilson emphasized that producing oil and gas inevitably releases pollution, and permitting new sites will lead to elevated levels.”

Sharon and Justin spoke to Emily Sanders for a DeSmog/ExxonKnews piece on LNG and the war in Iran.

“The oil and gas industry ‘loves crises from an economic standpoint, but also to force policy changes,” said Justin Mikulka

“It’s kind of hard to wrap your head around how much [methane] is escaping at these LNG terminals,” Sharon Wilson of Oilfield Witness, who tracks emissions from oil and gas facilities in Texas and across the country, told DeSmog and ExxonKnews. Venting and flaring methane are routine at every stage of gas production in the U.S., and methane emissions are drastically underreported by the industry’s own accounts. Wilson said she hoped European policymakers would come see the process through her optical gas imaging camera for themselves.

Greenpeace published an article that highlighted the findings of the Stop Methane project from UCLA Law. They listed the biggest methane plumes captured by satellites and the top one in the U.S. that was in Texas. And, as luck would have it, we already had multiple videos from that site. These are not leaks.

These are not the only events detected from the Red Lake Gas Plant. In September 2025, investigators with Oilfield Witness observed emissions from a flare at the Red Lake Gas Plant using optical gas imaging (OGI) cameras.

Fieldwork

Charlie was in the field in New Mexico on a tour of the New Mexico Permian Basin led by WildEarth Guardians, alongside representatives from Permian Future Generations and Earthrights International. During this trip, they documented emissions from produced water containment sites and visited several spill sites.

Tour members in New Mexico

Have you heard about produced water?  Want a drink?

Later in the month Charlie was in Oklahoma working with a journalist in support of a media project, where he surveyed the HF Sinclair Refineries in Tulsa and attempted to locate a number of abandoned wells near and in the Arkansas River with a journalist in support of a media project.

Image: Public Service of Oklahoma

Sharon was on the road for the whole month of March. Most of that was spent on the Texas coast where she battled mosquitoes and took a lot of video of emissions for LNG terminals (Jack was also in Texas taking video when Sharon went to Brussels to speak to politicians about U.S. LNG emissions). We will be sharing the results of all the work soon.  Luckily she got to bring Tilley along.

Videos

The team took a huge amount of new emissions videos in the past month and we will be sharing plenty in the near future. One of the most alarming was this video Sharon took of the brand new Exxon Golden Pass LNG export terminal which shows clouds of methane pouring off the facility.

Education

Jack gave a talk on one of our favorite topics at the American Chemical Society Spring conference and got invited back to the next conference.

Documentaries Screenings

Sharon attended the “Gaslit” screening in Brussels and then at the end of the month was in Maryland at the Annapolis Film Festival where “This is Not a Drill” was the featured environmental documentary and was selected by the jury as the best feature length documentary of the 2026 festival.

Our Writing

Justin wrote about how the latest war is bad news for the growth of the LNG industry.  The piece was also highlighted in Global Energy Monitor’s “Inside Gas” newsletter.

“India’s LNG imports were down around 10% at that point and Bloomberg highlighted the point I’ve been making — it’s simple economics and LNG is too expensive.

The other country that was supposed to drive LNG growth was China. In 2025 China’s LNG imports were down 12%.”

– Till the end of oil

The Oilfield Witness Team